Matt Damon will star as Robert F Kennedy in a biopic of the American politician, reports Deadline Hollywood.

The movie will follow Kennedy as he emerges as a promising political leader following the assassination of his older brother John F Kennedy. RFK was himself gunned down while running as a candidate for the Democtratic Party in 1968.

Seabiscuit's Gary Ross is attached to direct the film from a script by Oscar-nominated Dirty Pretty Things scribe Steven Knight.

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Evan Thomas's Kennedy biography His Life will serve as the basis for the movie.